Surveys WordPress Plugin

The Surveys WordPress plugin lets you add surveys to your blog. You can let the visitors take surveys and see the result from the admin side. The user who take the survey can enter their details at the end of the survey – or leave it as an anonymous result.

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Note:Surveys is a beta plugin(as are most of the plugins released in the Plugin Week) – so watch out for bugs. And trust me, there will be a lot of them.

Usage/Screenshots

First, Download, install and activate the Surveys plugin. Then go to Manage > Surveys section to create new surveys – or edit existing ones. After creating a survey insert the HTML comment [SURVEYS 1] into a post. Here, the 1 should be the ID of the survey you want to insert into that post.

The client side of the plugin will look something like this – your visitors will see this part…

You can see the result of the survey from the admin side – there are two ways to see the data…

Aggregate

This will show the results each question by aggregating all the data so far. This will look like a poll result. This mode is useful to make decisions – you can immediately see the most favored answers for each question.

Individual Responses

You can also view all the answers provided by each visitor one by one. This mode has its uses as well.

61 Comments

A bit of feedback though – I’ve been working on customising the “Enter Contact Details” page and through testing, managed to accumulate a whole bunch of redundant responses.

It’s good that I can delete the responses one by one in Manage Surveys (Show Individual Responses), but a “Delete All” button would have saved me so much time. It would be useful when you want to totally reset a survey too!

Hello,
first of all many thxs for this plugin. Very usefull and working with Czech language. I´ve created first Survey and don´t know how to manage to display answers with checkboxes into a 2 colums. Anay idea?
And the spaceing between the lines is too big, is it possible to make it smaller?
I would be happy if someone will help me – I am not IT person at all and the survey is needed for thesis and still doesn? look like nice :-(.
Many thanks.

I’m moving my site to a new wordpress installation and I want to export the current survey data I have. I found a way to export to csv, but I cannot see how to import this data back into the survey plugin installed in the new website. Is this possible? I also tried exporting the database info for the survey tables but could not get that to work either.

I am using survey to have a committee of 5 people assess applications for a number of different applicants. I would like to have one survey for each applicant to keep the information separate for each applicant.
I was wandering if I would be able to duplicate a survey so that I do not need to recreate the questions multiple times.
thanks Greer

Hello,
I am looking for a poll plugin that will able open ended questions also i.e. : thoughts and reactions on a certain discussion topic. Is that possible with this or does it need to have a multiple choice answer? We are trying to get info without influencing.
Thank you.
Isabelle

I have one question with multiple answers so the NEXT button doesn’t work. My users don’t know that of course so I have to manually direct them to click SUBMIT and ignore NEXT. Any way to edit the code and lose the NEXT button?

Just wanted to say thanks. Spent a few hours researching, tried a few others that were no good. This was simple to use and fits in perfectly with the design of my site.

I had my test survey up in about 5 minutes (I stuffed around with the others for ages) and I only had 1 bug that was fixed in about 2 minutes with the help of your forum. Great plugin and great support forum, thanks very much!

Using a database browser i can see that the data is still there, but as there is currently no export function, i cant decypher the export, when I click export the ram usage of plug-in up to 250MB but I can’t see the results. There is a lot of submissions over 500…

Have you experienced any conflicts with fancybox and your plugin? I’m getting a few new fancybox-related errors, that are only appearing specific to the page the survey is on. Not positive your plugin is causing the conflict, just seems to be the common denominator.
Otherwise, awesome plugin that has saved me a ton of time and grief!
Thanks

figured it out. you are loading jquery which was screwing up my load of jquery. you should think about adding a checkbox in the settings to enable/disable load of jQuery. really common problem amongst plugins. keep up the great work though, overall still a great plugin.

I would like design a test for my visitors so that they can answer a series of questions (20-40, i think) and each question would have a score, and based on the range of the total score, they get an answer, which is sort of like a personality test. For example:
0-10 They should give up
11-20 They can try but will run into difficulty
20-30 They will succeed

I looked at your quiz/survey, and not sure if it would support this type of “test”. Thanks!

Hello!
I found your Survey plugin very useful and nice and very easy to use 🙂 —–
I think your plugin could be the right solution for me.
I have just started to design my own surveys but before let people take these surveys I would like to kindly ask you some information.
1_Is there a maximum number of different surveys I can create in the admin dashboard?
2_Is there a maximum number of answers of different user I can collect?
Thank you in advance.

I translated the .po file in French.
Everything works fine except the recieved email wich give funny characters with accents.
In WordPress, all the accents are there and are good everywhere.
WordPress character-set is: define(‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);
In poedit I used: fr_FR

I tried a brand new installation of the server: SME-8.0, WordPress-3.4.1, new Surveys and still the same problem.

I am using Window$ XP.
I tried with an OpenSuSE station.
Still the same problem.

What’s the best way to show users the survey results? A lot of surveys let people see results on the front end after they submit. Reading the description, it looks like results are only visible on the admin back end.

Thanks for the plug in. Works great in WordPress 4.5.3 The only issue I have is that it wont send email. If you have any insight in to that I’d love to hear it. Outside of that, you’ve mad my daughter very happy as its her WordPress site that’s using it!